Art in the archaeological imagination / edited by Dragoş Gheorghiu.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gheorghiu, Dragos, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art, Ancient.

Archaeology.

Physical Description:

129 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxbow, 2020.

Summary:

"The present volume shows the archaeological thinking as a form of art, revealing the poetics of the archaeological imagination. It shows that, in their work, archaeologists, without being inspired by contemporary artists, use creative methods, and their analysis of the art of the past goes beyond the material culture of the art objects, into the realm of the mental processes of creation." -- Back cover.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Reveries and representations of the magic of being / Roberta Robin Dods

2. Catching the ephemeral - aesthetics of artful artefacts. A Middle Stone Age Still Bay bifacial pointed stone tool from Blombos Cave, South Africa and a Migration Period brooch from Kvale in Sogn, Norway / Torill Christine Lindstmm

3. The importance of the anthropological approach in archaeology: The example of prehistoric acoustic studies / Legor Reznikoff

4. Replicating the prehistoric artisan's mindset / Jacqui Wood

5. Pathways / Elizabeth Poraj-Wilczynska

6. Art in the corporal memory and in the mental imagery / Dragos Gheorghiu

7. Modernity and landscape through art: Deconstructing the mindset of British contemporary artist James Lawrence Isherwood / George Nash.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781789253528

1789253527

OCLC:

1111781718